Detectives have arrested three people in connection with an investigation at a private care home. The Express understands the owner of Woodlands, on Nostell Lane, Ryhill, is among those currently in custody at Wood Street Police Station.

A new website has been created to assist professionals who work with unpaid family carers. The site has been developed by the Princess Royal Trust.

Two reports produced today by the Healthcare Commission suggest older people are often denied access to the full range of mental health services available to younger adults and that improvements are needed to adult community specialist mental health services.

FOR years he lived in utter isolation, was refused life-saving insulin if he misbehaved and treated like a slave by those who were meant to love him most.

A crucial meeting has been arranged after members of a civil rights action group formed a blockade outside the city council’s social services department in Birmingham.

A Surrey social worker who had sex with a teenage girl has been struck off. Thomas Ritzler was jailed for two years and four months at Guildford Crown Court last November for sleeping with the 14-year-old.

A social worker convicted of having sex with an under-age girl has been struck off the professional register.

Anger has greeted news that no-one will be prosecuted after a “catalogue of abuse” was uncovered at Budock Hospital.